• obstbert@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    LibreOffice is a OpenOffice fork. I think LibreOffice is there because Oracle basically stopped the development of OpenOffice.

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      yup. oracle bought sun microsystems and promised to keep opneoffice going while firing everyone working on it or shifting them to other “higher value” projects like java. so then the people who had loved working on open office founded the open document foundation and forked to libreoffice. oracle then rushed out a couple shitty open office versions before donating it to the apache foundation for a tax break